Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 25 Quotes

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1. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”  ? Of Love and Other Demons
    
2. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ? Living to Tell the Tale
   
   
3. "Necessity has the face of a dog." ? In Evil Hour
    
4. “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
    
5. "One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them...My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.” ? Love in the Time of Cholera
    
6. “No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.” ? Memories of My Melancholy Whores
    
7. “I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.” ? Memories of My Melancholy Whores 
   
8. “Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.” ? Of Love and Other Demons
    
9. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ? Living to Tell the Tale
    
10. “A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.” ? The Autumn of the Patriarch
     
11. “But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.” ? Love in the Time of Cholera
     
12. “Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.” ? One Hundred Years of Solitude
     
13. "By trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing” ? One Hundred Years of Solitude
    
    
14. “Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” ? Love in the Time of Cholera
     
15. "The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight." ? One Hundred Years of Solitude
    
    
16. ”’The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’ That was the last thing he was heard to say.” ? One Hundred Years of Solitude
    
    
17. "A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. ? Love in the Time of Cholera
    
    
18. "No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." ? Love in the Time of Cholera
    
    
19. "He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet." ? Love in
    the Time of Cholera
     
20. "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast." ? Love in the Time of Cholera
    
    
21. "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." ? Love in the Time of Cholera
     
22. "He who awaits much can expect little." ? No One Writes to the Colonel
    
    
23. "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him." ? Love in the Time of Cholera
    
    
24. “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” ? Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
     
25. “There is always something left to love.” ? One Hundred Years of Solitude

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